queenofnobullshit:beejohnlocked:Is there any doubt that Magnussen is the one who called the...

queenofnobullshit:

beejohnlocked:

Is there any doubt that Magnussen is the one who called the ambulance? I am looking at this with simple common sense. Not only was he shown reaching for his phone during the scene (and the actual scene, not the mind palace scene), but he has much more motivation to keep Sherlock alive than Mary does. Sherlock is his link to Mycroft. Without Sherlock, he doesn’t own Mycroft. Magnussen is a businessman above all else, acquiring assets. He may be a despicable human being, but his motivations are clear. If Sherlock died, then what? The (second) most powerful man in Britain has but one pressure point, and it’s about to bleed out all over Magnussen’s floor. You’d better bet he’s gonna keep that from happening.

The moment we “see” Mary making the call, it is during Sherlock’s retelling of events. Events during which he was unconscious. But the fact is, we have no way of telling if Mary made a call.

I headcanon that Mary DID make a call – to CANCEL the ambulance that Magnussen requested. And then John made the second call which brought it. “Left to you, I’d have died,” Sherlock says, but the thing is: he DID die. The doctors had given up on him, so the speed of the ambulance made no difference.

I’m not sure she actually cancelled it, but yeah. She definitely is not responsible for the ambulance being there. That’s Magnussen.

Yes, I always though Magnussen made the call. Don’t think she cancelled it because the ambulance did show up faster there than it did when Sherlock timed it later at 221B. But hopefully we’ll get this revealed in S4.  

Yes, he wants Sherlock alive, because Sherlock is Mycroft’s only pressure point.